ANSO 107-01, Becoming Human: Archaeology and the Origins of Culture, Fall 1998

Abstract

In the first section (5 weeks) we will explore the theoretical and methodological approaches used in anthropological archaeology. In the second half of the course, we will study how these approaches have been applied to understanding the past, beginning with the first evidence of culture approximately five million years ago up to the beginnings of plant and animal domestication, sedentarization and the beginnings of complex society.